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Vocabulary on September 29, 2022 from The Guardian (Words: 1.#HERALD, 2. #STANDOFF)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. HERALD = to give notice of; announce; পূর্বাভাষ দেওয়া ; be a sign that (something) is about to happen; একটি চিহ্ন যে কিছু ঘটতে চলেছে; adumbrate, forerun, foreshadow, harbinger, prefigure; signal; indicate; announce; point to; spell; presage; augur; portend; promise; foretell; usher in; show in; pave the way for; open the way for; be a harbinger of; be a forerunner; be a precursor; precede; come before; 2. STANDOFF = অচলাবস্থা; deadlock; stalemate; impasse; standstill; dead end; draw; tie; dead heat;  >>> Sentences: 1. Nord Stream blasts could HERALD new phase of hybrid war, say EU politicians. 2. Nord Stream has been at the heart of a STANDOFF between Russia and Europe over energy supplies since the start of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, but it is not immediately clear who stands to benefit from the destruction of the gas infrastructure.

Vocabulary on September 28, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1.#SABOTAGE, 2. #RUPTURE, 3. #FORTHRIGHT]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. SABOTAGE = ইচ্ছাকৃত ক্ষতি ; deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage. নাশকতা ; destructiveness; 2. RUPTURE = ফাটল ; বিদারণ ; Fission; break or burst suddenly (especially of a pipe, a vessel, or a bodily part such as an organ or membrane). 3. FORTHRIGHT = সরাসরি ; direct, straight, right, outright, immediate, অবিচল ; steadfast, constant, unswerving, uncompromising, ataractic; দ্বিধাহীন ; confident, direct, frank, unfaltering; অবিচলভাবে ;; সোজাসুজি ; directly, straight way, baldly,  >>> Sentences: 1. SABOTAGE is the most likely cause of leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, European leaders have said, after seismologists reported explosions around the Nord Stream pipelines. 2. A Danish military flight over the leaks brought back striking images from the RUPTURES , including one showing an area of bubbling gas a kilometre wide on the sea...

Vocabulary on September 25, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #UNRAVEL, 2. #TACK, 3. #ESCALATE, 4. #STYMIE, 5. #STUPEFY, 6. #DENIGRATE, 7. #HITHERTO, 8. #VASSAL, 9. #BLUNDER; 10. #SMOULDERING, 11. #CONSCRIPT]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. UNRAVEL = পাক খুলা ; ravel; স্পষ্ট করা ; elucidate, demonstrate, bring out, clarify, explain; পাক খুলিয়া দেত্তয়া ; unroll, ravel, unfold, warp; পাক খুলিয়া যাত্তয়া ; unroll, ravel, develop; সমাধান করা ; solve, resolve, evolve, receive, read; 2. TACK = জাহাজের পথ পরিবর্তিত করা ; অবস্থান পরিবর্তন করা ; পেরেক দিয়া আটকান ; fasten or fix in place with tacks. 3. ESCALATE = ধাপে ধাপে বৃদ্ধি করা   হত্তয়া ; increase rapidly; soar; rocket; shoot up; mount; surge; spiral; grow rapidly; rise rapidly; climb; go up; 4. STYMIE = কোণঠাসা করা ; prevent or hinder the progress of; impede; interfere with; hamper; hinder; obstruct; inhibit; frustrate; thwart; foil; spoil; stall; shackle; fetter; stop; check; block; cripple; handicap; scotch; put paid to; put the kibosh on; snooker; scupper; 5. STUPEFY = হতবুদ্ধি করা ; befuddle, বিভ্রান্ত করা ; baffle, confound, puzzle, , embarrass;   স্তম্ভিত করা ; amaze, knock out; ...

Vocabulary on September 23, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MOBILISATION, 2. #SPOOK]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. MOBILISATION = সৈন্যযোজন ; impressment; preparing and organizing troops for active service; 2. SPOOK = ভয় দেখান ; intimidate, bulldoze, threaten, bluff, frighten, impend; আতঙ্কিত করা ; terrify, scare, dismay, horrify; [n] ভূত ; ghost, phantom, spook, genie, sprite, gremlin; >>> Sentences: 1. Hours after Vladimir Putin shocked Russia by announcing the first MOBILISATION since the second world war, Oleg received his draft papers in the mailbox, ordering him to make his way to the local recruitment centre in Kazan, the capital of the ​​Tatarstan republic. 2. The mobilisation also appears to have SPOOKED some of the very people on whom the regime relies to sustain its war efforts.

Vocabulary on September 22, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #FLIRT, 2. #GLIB, 3. #APOCALYPTIC,

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   >>> Word meanings: 1. FLIRT = ঝাঁকান ; shake, টুস্কি মারা ; flip, fillip, pop, ছিনালি করা ; kitten, coquet, play footsie, gallivant, mash; trifle with; হেলাফেলা করা ; toy with; আমোদ করা ; tease; lead on; philander with; dally with; 2. GLIB = সাবলীল ; flowing, facile, easy, free, সহজ ; easy, simple, facile, soft, light, মসৃণ ; smooth, sleek, plane, bland, mellifluous, 3. APOCALYPTIC = রহস্যদঘাটন - সংক্রান্ত ; রহস্য - উন্মোচক ; describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world; catastrophic; momentous; আবশ্যক ; ominous; অশুভ লক্ষণপূর্ণ ; portentous; পূর্বলক্ষণসূচক ; life-and-death; serious; grave; epic; huge; earth-shattering;  >>> Sentences: 1. While the longtime Russian leader has previously FLIRTED with the grim prospect of using nuclear weapons, experts say his latest statements went further, raising fears around the world of an unprecedented nuclear disaster. 2. It’s GLIB to assume anyone claiming they are not bluff...

Vocabulary on September 20, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #RAPPROCHEMENT, 2. #THAW, 3. #FROIDEUR, 4. #PAEDOPHILE, 5. #INTERMENT, 6. #RESCIND]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. RAPPROCHEMENT = পুনর্মিলন ; reunion, reconciliation, reconcilement, rally, conciliation; সৌহার্দ্য ; good feeling, amity, Fellowship; মিটমাট ; reconciliation, arrangement, conciliation, reconcilability, reconcilement; 2. THAW = আচরণে অসমায়িক কোমল হত্তয়া ; become soft; 3. FROIDEUR = আনুষ্ঠানিক বন্ধুত্বহীনতা ; formal unfriendliness; coolness or reserve between people; a coldness of manner; an aloofness; একাকীত্ব ; উদাসীনতা ; তফাৎ ; 4. PAEDOPHILE = যে ব্যক্তি শিশুদের প্রতি যৌনভাবে আকৃষ্ট হন , a person who is sexually attracted to children; 5. INTERMENT = গোর ; burial, সমাধি - ক্রিয়া ; 6. RESCIND = বাতিল করা ; set aside, rule out, cross off, abolish, reject, invalidate; কাটিয়া ফেলা ; shred, chop, excise, exscind, flench, flense; রদ করা ; annul, revoke, annihilate, quash, cancel, abrogate; নাকচ করা ; negate, negation, nullify, overrule, rescind, revoke;  >>> Sentences: 1. A RAPPROCHEMENT seemed far ...

Vocabulary on September 18, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #EXTANT, 2. #WITHER, 3. #OVERAWE, 4. #OUTLAWED]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. EXTANT = বিদ্যমান ; still in existence; surviving; surviving; remaining; abiding; enduring; undestroyed; present; existent; living; alive; 2. WITHER = নির্জীব করা ; কটান , fade; বিবর্ণ হত্তয়া ; pale, grow pale, discolour, discolor, tarnish; নির্জীব হত্তয়া ; প্রাণশক্তি হারান ; হ্রাস পাত্তয়া ; diminish, subside, slack, slacken, wane; হ্রাস করা ; reduce, minimize, decrease, lessen, diminish; ক্ষয়প্রাপ্ত হত্তয়া , decline, droop, decay, consume, crumble; ক্ষীণ হত্তয়া ; give out, become weak, dwindle, grow feeble, languish; বিনষ্ট হত্তয়া ; perish, collapse; become dry and shriveled; wilt; become limp; droop; fade; shrivel (up); dry up; die; perish; 3. OVERAWE = ভয়ে বা সশ্রদ্ধ বিস্ময়ে অভিভূত করে ফেলা ; intimidate; daunt; cow; take someone’s breath away; awe; disconcert; bling someone with something; unnerve; discourage; subdue; abash; dismay; frighten; alarm; scare; deter; terrify; terrorize; browbeat; bully; 4. OUTLAWED...

Vocabulary on September 17, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #NASCENT, 2. #DISINGENUOUS]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. NASCENT = বর্ধনশীল ; augmentative, thriving, crescent, rising, formative; জন্মলাভ করিতেছে এমন ; উত্পাদ্যমান ; just beginning; budding; developing; growing; embryonic; ভ্রূণ ; incipient; প্রারম্ভিক ; young; in its infancy; fledgling; evolving; emergent; emerging; rising; dawning; advancing; burgeoning; ক্রমবর্ধমান ; just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential; 2. DISINGENUOUS = কপট ; assumed, insincere, illusory (not real), counterfeit, double; অসরল ; evasive, tortuous, indirect, curved, crooked; কৃত্রিম ; artificial, simulated, synthetic, pretended, false, আন্তরিকতাশূন্য ; গোপন উদ্দেশ্যপ্রণোদিত ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The memo claimed that internal BP documents highlighted how carbon capture and storage (CCS) – a NASCENT technology that involves inserting CO2 emissions into underground rock formations – could “enable the full use of fossil fuels across the energy transition and beyond”. ...

Vocabulary on September 15, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MORBIDITY, 2. #MIMIC]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. MORBIDITY = অসুস্থতা ; রোগ ; disease, illness, malady, পীড়া ;   affliction, vice; রোগহার ; রোগের সংখ্যা ; 2. MIMIC = নকল করা ; reproduce, simulate, imitate, transcribe, forge; কৌতুকের জন্য অনুকরণ করা ; imitate (someone or their actions or words), especially in order to entertain or ridicule; copy; impersonate; do an impression of; take off; caricature; mock; make fun of; parody; satirize; lampoon; ব্যঙ্গ কবিতা ;   burlesque; হাস্যকর অনুকরণ ;    >>> Sentences: 1. One of the papers of WHO says: “With access to and appropriate use of existing life-saving tools, Covid-19 can become a manageable disease with significantly reduced MORBIDITY and mortality.” 2. But the Department of Health and Social Care told the GP magazine Pulse there were no plans to MIMIC this programme with a Covid vaccine, with supplies only available through the NHS.

Vocabulary on September 14, 2022 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #SETBACK]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. SETBACK = বিপত্তি ; hazard, danger, trouble; বাধা ; obstacle, barrier, bunker, obstruction, block, interruption; অবস্থার অবনতি ; প্রতিহতি ; >>> Sentences: 1. Major SETBACKS for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine will further test the “limitless partnership” between China and Russia when their leaders meet this week for the first time since the invasion, analysts have said.

Vocabulary on September 13, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #BRISKLY, 2. #COLLATE, 3. #CARDIOVASCULAR, 4. #PLATEAU]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. BRISKLY = দ্রুত; in an active, quick, or energetic way; nimbly; চটপটে; rapidly; vigorously; জোরেশোরে; 2. COLLATE = ক্রমানুসারে সাজানো; collect and combine in proper order; পরম্পর মিলাইয়া দেখা; 3. CARDIOVASCULAR = relating to the heart and blood vessels. 4. PLATEAU = a state of little or no change following a period of activity or progress; শান্ত বা স্থির সময়কাল; quiescent period;  >>> Sentences: 1. Walking BRISKLY is beneficial for all health outcomes including dementia, heart disease, cancer and death. 2. The data was COLLATED as part of the largest study tracking step counts in relation to health outcomes. 3. Prof Tony Blazevich, an expert in biomechanics at Edith Cowan University, said these outcomes make “heaps of sense”, particularly when looking at CARDIOVASCULAR health. 4. Typically, the health benefits of walking tend to level off or PLATEAU at higher step counts.

Vocabulary on September 12, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #CONSORT, 2. #APPRENTICESHIP, 3. #SELF-RESTRAINT, 4. #SHREWD]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. CONSORT = সঙ্গী ; mate, companion, comrade, associate, peer, attendant; [Verb] সঙ্গে থাকা ; accompany; স্বামী বা স্ত্রী ; সহগামী জাহাজ ; সংগতি থাকা ; সময় কাটানো ; divert, 2. APPRENTICESHIP = শিক্ষানবিশ ; the position of an apprentice; traineeship, training period, studentship, novitiate; initiation; probationary period; trial period; 3. SELF-RESTRAINT = আত্মসংযম ; moderation, ice, self-government, self-control; আত্মসংবরণ ; আত্মবশ ; আত্মদমন ; জিতেন্দ্রি়তা ; continence, morality, morals, চিত্তজয় ; self-restraint; চিত্তদমন ;   সংযম ; moderation, frugality, mortification, discipline, abstention; 4. SHREWD = চতুর ;   তীক্ষ্ন ; piercing, pointed, penetrating, sharp, edgy; বিচক্ষণ ; discreet, unobtrusive, prudent, sensible, astute; কূট ; deceptive, intricate, tricky, cooked up, fabricated; কূটনীতিক ; diplomatic, political;  >>> Sentences: 1. Camilla, the Queen CONSORT , once said that King Charles’s des...

Vocabulary on September 11, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #DRAWDOWN]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. DRAWDOWN = সামরিক বাহিনীর আকার বা উপস্থিতি হ্রাস। a reduction in the size or presence of a military force; বিনিয়োগ বা তহবিল হ্রাস; a decline in an investment or fund. >>> Sentences: 1. “A three-day operation was carried out on the DRAWDOWN and organised transfer of the Izium-Balakliia group of troops to the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” said the Russian defence ministry spokesperson, Igor Konashenkov.

Vocabulary on September 10, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #RATCHET]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. RATCHET =   Cause something to rise or fall as a step in a steady and irreversible process.  >>> Sentences: 1. Interest rates across the Eurozone must continue to RATCHET upwards to tackle rapidly rising inflation, European Central Bank policymakers said.  

Vocabulary on September 8, 2022 from The Guardian [ Word: 1. #COUNTERSUIT]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. COUNTERSUIT = পালটা মামলা ;   an opposing lawsuit; প্রতিবাদী মামলা ; a claim asserted by an opposing party in a lawsuit (such as a defendant) against the party bringing the original lawsuit (such as a plaintiff)  >>> Sentences: 1. However, McCormick ruled that Musk’s COUNTERSUIT against Twitter, to be heard at the same time, could be expanded to include allegations from the whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko.    

Vocabulary on September 7, 2022 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #SEDENTARY]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. SEDENTARY = আসীন; seated; উপবিষ্ট; sitting; desk-bound; desk; inactive; still; stationary; (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.  >>> Sentences: 1. Increasing physical activity and reducing time spent SEDENTARY is likely to decrease the risk of breast cancer, a study of more than 100,000 women suggests.

Vocabulary on September 3, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #FALLACIOUS]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. FALLACIOUS =   ভ্রান্ত;Erroneous; false; untrue; wrong; incorrect; faulty; flawed; inaccurate; inexact; imprecise;প্রতারণাপূর্ণ; fraudulent, insidious, deceptive, deceitful, imposing, হেত্বাভাসমূলক;  >>> Sentences : 1. The European Commission chief spokesman, Eric Mamer, said: “Gazprom’s announcement this afternoon that it is once again shutting down Nord Stream 1 under FALLACIOUS pretences is another confirmation of its unreliability as a supplier.”